Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.